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My car is in a tim hortons parkin lot right now. I guess i'm gonna have to tow it tomorrow morning but before i do let me see if you guys have an idea whats going on here. Car was driving perfectly fine stopped to get a coffee come back to it. Start it but it won't start. Then on second try starts and dies suddenly. Again and same result this time i'm trying to get it going by flooring the gas pedal but rpm won't even budge and it dies again right away. Repeat the same procedure several times same results. Come back half an hour later and now try to start it like 5 times and now it won't even start. Engine doesn't even fire it just "tries to start" but nothing. I know its not the battery cuz its brand new and power windows lights music everything works perefectly alirght. What could it be? Starter? But if it is the starter would it start the car at all? (cuz at first like i said it did just do die on me seconds later)

Just to mention last couple months one time out of 10 when i tried to start it it engine wouldn't start on the first try but on second would (would that be a symptom of a starter going bad?)

so ya i guess i will have to tow it but it being sunday tomorrow i will either have to try and leave the car there till monday morning and tow it straight to some mechanic or just tow it tomorrow morning home and then tow it from home to mechanic monday morn..which means moore money

Worst part is i was gonna go take it to the mechanic this week to get everything fixed on it since there were some engine coolant leaking problelm n the last couple days but i refilled it again today but i'm sure it leaked more but didnt' overheat at all so ya anyway..help please?!!!

Alternator going out/dud battery. Everything will work but the engine will just click because it takes a huge amount of power to run the starter whereas it uses about nothing to power everything else. Have you tried jumping it? If you can start it by jumping and then it dies then you have a dead alternator. Try swapping the batterys as well. Watch out for jumping the car though, voltage changes can screw up a lot of things (like the cluster, for one thing). Only do it when completely necessary.

Alternator going out/dud battery. Everything will work but the engine will just click because it takes a huge amount of power to run the starter whereas it uses about nothing to power everything else. Have you tried jumping it? If you can start it by jumping and then it dies then you have a dead alternator. Try swapping the batterys as well. Watch out for jumping the car though, voltage changes can screw up a lot of things (like the cluster, for one thing). Only do it when completely necessary.

I'd put my money on a dud battery then. Did it click like 3 times when you tried to jump it?

no when i tried to start it last several times it "tried" but engine just wouldn't fire..this batter is only 2 months or so old..my old one was garbage and i know that clicking sound all to well...so i'm 99.9% sure it is not the battery cuz even like i said at first it started several times but just just as soon died out on me

Went to see if the car was still there and it was...was gonna tow it but before i did i started it and it just started as if nothing happened the prior night?? what's that all about? Does that mean the fuel pump IS working afterall?..i did listen for it and it sounds fine..so anyway got the car home now..shut it off in the driveway and started it again same thing fine...im gonna take it to the mechanic tomorrow if it starts up but let me just ask since i have a coolant leak somewhere could that been the prob? Could the leak affect it somehow? I dont know where the leak is but i know its not radiator or anywhere near it..it just drips down somewhere around the driver side of the engine..somwehre there...also yesterday there was a lot of snow and rain here so could drivring over a puddle or some salt/snow w.e got something wet that would result in that?

on a sidenote for the last couple weeks now i have this whistling sound going on when i accelrate i belive..but only when the engine is cold i think...

I have the same problem, I think its the fuel pump. Mine did the same thing. It wouldn't start about a couple of months ago. After that it was fine. Then, last Fri just stalled on me off a stop sign. Wouldn't start, it would crank, all electricals are fine, battery was good, just wouldn't catch and start and keep going. I just got the part and about to install. Would know tomorrow.